Possible Clues:

• Not take the heat well
• Are you going to tire?
• Character and 1976 novel by Tom Sharpe
• Droop with immediate loss thus initially
• Will you be old-fashioned and droop like this?
• Lose strength and become limp
• (Of plants) droop
• Henry __, comic antihero created by Tom Sharpe
• Decline to discard jack going after West
• Old are going to diminish